How to take a screenshot of your laptop screen

To capture the frame successfully passed the level of a computer game, an interesting video or just the desktop and share it with a friend is a snap. Enough to know how to take a screenshot of the screen of the laptop. It will take just 2-3 mouse clicks.

Notice on the top block of buttons on the keyboard. Here is the key that allows you to take a screenshot of the laptop screen. It's called “Print Screen” or the abbreviation “PrScr” and usually follows immediately after the function key F12.

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Click the “Print Screen” at the right time. The finished screenshot will be copied to the computer's clipboard – a special internal memory area for temporarily copying information. Not to accidentally erase a screenshot, to temporarily refrain from copying different data.

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Open a standard Microsoft Windows application for image editing called MS Paint. You can find it in the list of default programs in the start menu. In the upper pane, select the tab "edit" group and click "Paste". You can also use the key combination "CTRL + V". As a result, the screenshot of the laptop screen, which you have made will appear in the program as an image. Edit it as needed: increase or decrease in size, cut out unnecessary boundaries or parts, change the palette of colors, add your own notes, etc.

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Save the screen by selecting the tab "File" function "Save as..." or by pressing "CTRL + S". Specify any image format and name it, then select the folder where it was placed, and click "Save". This way you will be able to do a screenshot on laptop unlimited number of times.

Note

Paste the screenshot from the clipboard you can in any other graphical program for working with images: Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Pixia etc. Remember that some of the spread in demo and after a certain number of days are starting to require the inclusion of funds for the purchase of the relevant application.

Useful advice

You can use one of the numerous programs that will help to make a screenshot of your laptop screen faster and easier, for example, FireShot, Joxi, Paint.Net etc. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that as soon as you press Print Screen, the screenshot will appear in the graphic editor or be saved to disk, thereby saving you from a few additional steps.

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